Salt-vapor cabinet



H. .I. NULLETT.

SALT'VAPOR CABINET.

APPLICATION man APR. 2, 1920.

Patented Apr. 19, 1921c N MEN INVENTOR HJ/vuzzezz AITORN EY WITNESES SALT-VAPOR canmn'r.

svacoa Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 19, 1921.

Application filed April 2, 1920. Serial No. 379,730.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern Be it known that T, HARRY JOSEPH NUL- Ln'rr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelbyand State of Tennessee, have invented new and useful improvements in Salt-Vapor Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to a medicinal vapor cabinet.

An object is to produce a cabinet in which a vapor is directed therein through a medicament, such as a salinousbody, so that the healing and soothing property thereof will be directed to and absorbed in the pores of a patient using the cabinet.

A further object of the invention is to produce a medical vapor cabinet in which the walls thereof are divided into compartments, the inner series of which having perforated walls and receiving therein a granulated salinous body of medicinal properties, he outer compartments serving as ducts for a vapor which is generated in the bottom of the cabinet, and the said vapor is directed through the perforated walls of the medicament compartments into the cabinet, carrying therewith the medicinal properties of the medicament and directing the same against the occupant of the cabinet.

A further object is to produce a medical vapor cabinet in which a vapor is caused to travel through a medicinal body and enter the cabinet, the said cabinet having on the interior thereof means for preventing the patient contacting with its walls and also means whereby the patient will be wholly incloscd in the cabinet.

The foregoing objects, and others which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, may be accomplished by a construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts, such as is illustrated by the drawings.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the improved cabinet.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View approximately on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

My improved cabinetis broadly indicated by the numeral 10. The cabinet includes a compartment 11 for the patient. For distinction the floor of the compartment 11 is indicated by the numeral 12. The walls of the compartment 11, at a considerable distance below the upper edges thereof are perforated, as at 13 and form the inner walls of medicament compartments 14:. By reference to the drawings it will be seen that t ie front of the occupant compartment 11 is open, but the same is designed to be closed by a hinged door 15, suitable latching means 16 being provided for retaining the door closed. It will also be noted that all of the walls of the cabinet extend a suitable distance below the floor 12, and the floor 12 is preferably supported on brackets 17 that are secured to the outer walls 18 of the vapor compartments 19 and to the front wall 20 of the device. The floor 12 may also serve as the bottom wall of the compartments 11 and 19. Below the floor 12, and preferably supported by brackets 21 is a sub-floor 22. This floor, being elevated a suitable distance above the lower edge of the cabinet, is preferably perforated, as indicated by the numeral 23. The floors 12 and 22 provide a compartment 2% for a heater 25, and above the heater is supported a water receptacle 26.

The floor 12, at the portion thereof directly below the vapor compartments 19 is perforated, as indicated by the numeral 27, whereby the vapor from the heated water in the receptacle 26 maybe directed through said compartments. The dividing walls 28 between the medicament compartment let and the vapor compartment 19, are perforated, as indicated by the numeral 29.

The heater compartment has an opening which is closed by a door 30. The door is preferably, but not necessarily slidable, and through the opening therefor the heater may be regulated and the water receptacle 26 replenished or removed. The vapor compartments 19 have their outer or upper portions sealed, as indicated by the numeral 31, but the medicament compartments 14 are open at the top thereof. The open tops, however, are normally closed by hinged doors 32 that are provided with latching or locking means 33. The medicament compartments, at the lower portions thereof are also preferably provided with openings that are closed by doors 34: whereby the medicament in the said compartments may be removed, the medicaments being arranged in the compartments through the openings closed by the doors 32.

The walls of the occupant compartment 11, as previously inferred, project a suitable distance above the medicament and vapor are spaced curved members 36 which are also preferably round in cross section, and the members 36 provide a rest for the back of the patient occupying the cabinet.

The top of the cabinet is open, but the side walls, at the rear thereof have outwardly extending brackets 37 in which is journaled the trunnion ends of a roller 38. This roller may be and preferably is spring influenced, and has secured thereon a curtain 39. W hen the patient enters the cabinet the door 15 thereof is closed and the curtain is drawn over the open top of the compartment 11 so that the vaporized medicament cannot escapethrough either the front or top of the compartment'll. The curtain 39 is provided with a latch 40 that engages with thefinner face of the door 15, or any other convenient part of the device for holding the top of the compartment 11 closed.

The medicament employed is preferably of a salinous nature which is pulverized so that the same may be readily inserted in or removed from the medicament compartments. The salinous body fully fills the compartments and constitutes a pervious body for each of such compartments through which the vapor must necessarily pass from the vapor compartments into the occupant compartment, and being absorbed in the pores of the patient will have both a soothing and healing effect.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is I 1. A vapor cabinet, including an occupant compartment, having an open front and an open top, a door closing the front,

a curtain for closing the top, vapor generating means below the compartment, medicament holding compartments disposed against the sides and back of the occupant compartment and having perforate commu-. nications therewith, and vapor compartments positioned against the medicament compartments having perforated communications therewith and with the vapor generating means.

2. A vapor cabinet including an occupant compartment having an open front and an; open top, a door for closing the front, a curtain for closing the top, vapor generating means below the compartment, medicament iolding compartments arranged against the sides and backof the occupant compartment having perforate communications therewith, said medicament holding compartments having open tops, hinged doors for closing the same, said compartments having openings'at the bottom thereof, doors for closing said openings, vapor conducting compartments, on the outer sides of the medicament holding compartments and having perfo' rated communications with the said medic-as ment compartments and also having perforate communications with the vapor generating means, whereby the vapors will be directed through the vapor compartments through the medicament in the medicament compartments and into the occupant compartment.

3. A cupant compartment, medicament containing compartments thereagainst and having perforate communications therewith, a vapor conducting compartment for each of the medicament compartments and having perforate communications with the said medicament compartments, a door for closing the front of the occupant compartment,

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curtain for closing the top of the occupant compartment, rods on the sides of the occupant compartment and on the back of the occupant compartment, and curved rods connecting said first mentioned rods, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

HARRY JOSEPH NULLETT. 

